Hanger attachment for picture-frames.



. v PATENTED JUNE 2, 1903.

F. A. MATTHEWS. HANGER ATTACHMENT FOR PICTURE FRAMES.

ATILIOATION FILED FEB. 2. 1903.

H0 MODEL.

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No.730,141. v I Patented June 2, 1903. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK A.- MATTHEWS, OF'EUREK'A, CALIFORNIA.

HANGER ATTACHMENT FO'R PICTURE-FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 730,141, dated June 2,1903. Application filed February 2; 1903. Serial No. 141,445. (No model.)

To al whom i m y 007L067! the picture-frame, while the middle portion Be it known that LFRANKA. MATTHEWS, a is spaced therefrom. Said ends are secured citizen of the United States, residing at Euto the pictureframe by means of screws 6. reka, in the county of Humboldt and State of The middle portion 5 has a central longitudi- 5 California, have invented certain new and nal slot 7, and in said slot travels the neck 8 -40 useful Improvements in Hanger Attachments of a guide 9. To said guide is fixedly secured for Picture-Frames, of which the following is the shank 10 of a screw-eye 11, and between a specification. I said screw-eye and the strip 3 is interposed a My invention relates to hanger attachments nut 12, having its edge milled, as shown at 13. l0 for picture-frames, the object of my inven- By screwing said nut upon the shank of the 5 tion being to provide'a device of this characscrew-eye the latter" can be clamped very ter by means of which the picture can be firmly in any desired position longitudinally readily tilted to any desired angle after it is of the attachment. hung. By means ofthis contrivance it becomes [5 My invention therefore resides in the novel easy to tilt the picture to any desired level 50 construction, combination, and arrangement while it is hung. All that is necessary is to of parts for the above ends, hereinafter fully unscrew the nuts, loosen the clamps, then specified, and particularly pointed out invthe move the screw-eyes up or down to the declaim. sired position, and then screw up the nuts In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1' is again to clamp the screw-eyes in place. 5 5

a perspective view of a picture, part thereof I claim being broken away to show my attachment In combinationwithapicture-frame, astrip applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical section secured longitudinally at each side of the rear of the attachment of actual size in position. of I the frame having a longitudinal slot, a (:5 Fig. 3 is ahorizontal section through the guide in said slot, ascrew-eye fixedly secured 6o screw-eye. Fig. i is a rear view of the attachto said guide, and a nut on said screw-eye for ment. clamping the same in any desired position. Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a In witness whereof I have hereunto set my picture-frame to the backof which is secured hand in the presence of two subscribing witat each side one of my improved attachments nesses.

2, one only being shown. The main element 1 of said attachment consists of a strip of metal FRANK MA'l THEW 3, which has its ends 'bent inward from its \Vitnesses: middle portion 5, so thatsaid ends can be W. M. GROWN, brought into close contact with the rear of O. A. WHITEHILL. 

